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8th September, 2007
Posted Jan 16, 2007
On 8th September, 2007, I am going to reveal the secrets of Human Intelligence. I've known them since quite some time and since I've lost interest in life around me. It is a state of 'Nirvana' or Enlightenment, but it is so boring. I used to be an avid reader and writer but nothing interests me now as all knowledge contained in books and all information in newspapers seems so superfluous.
I think it's time to share the secret and to relieve me of its burden. I've chosen this date because it is my birthday and it is also World Literacy Day. It's time the World learnt something that would change it forever!
8th September, 2007 will be a landmark day for those who want to see the mirror (though they may not like the image on the other side). The day is about revelation of secrets of Human Intelligence. All around the world, several ongoing researches provide only bits and pieces of information about Human Intelligence. On 8th September, 2007, I'm going to publish an integrated theory of Human Intelligence (How it evolved, how we think, learn and act and how human mind works).
Life would not remain the same on this planet after 8th September, 2007!
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Darwin and Evolution: The Missing Link-Critique Part III
Posted Jan 14, 2007
When Darwin published his famous work “Origin of Species”, little did he realize that his work would make people jump to too many conclusions too soon on the issue of evolution. When Darwin suggested that humans evolved from primates, his studies were dubbed as heretical. But as paleontologists began searching and studying human fossils, they shared Darwinian zeal to prove that humans evolved from a bunch of primates and grew more intelligent with each successive stage (as evident from the larger brain size).
As some contradictory finds were made like Lucy or the little China man, they were termed as aberration in the seemingly straight chain of fossil finds that showed the trend of evolving humans with larger brain sizes. As paleontology could never be an absolute science that depended solely on absolute results, the story of human evolution is considered to be complete with lots of gumption, assumption and deduction providing fillers in the gaps of evolution sequence.
One such gross assumption is that human intelligence was part of human evolution. While Darwin studied evolution, he noted how certain species evolved different traits in a different environment and how the most adaptive survived the longest. Similarly, while studying human evolution, we assume that humans evolved with a given set of intelligence parameters and these continued to grow to the present day.
We study Australopithecus, Neanderthals and the so-called modern human beings and we assume that they all were evolving intellectually at the same time. We never tried to separate intelligence from the physical evolution of the humans. Modern theories of evolution suggest that human evolution began some 1.5 million years ago and several sub-species evolved before the emergence of modern humans some 30-40K years ago. They also suggest how modern humans emerged first in Africa and spread across Europe and other continents, causing perhaps the extinction of their counterparts in Europe, the Neanderthals, along the way.
If evolution is all about the survival of the fittest, could it be possible that modern humans were more intelligent than their predecessors were? Could it also be possible that they were really the first and the only truly intelligent beings on earth? After all, what proof do we have of intelligent activities before the emergence of modern humans? The earliest expressions of human intelligence are perhaps cave paintings, pottery making, development of special tools and the modicum of social interaction that led to settlement of humans in colonies and groups. And all this evidence dates back to perhaps 40-30,000 years or even less. The use of languages is perhaps as late as 15-10,000 years old or less. The written scripts came about 5500-3000 years ago. Earliest civilizations are also about 10-5,000 years or so old. All this evidence amply suggests that human intelligence 'suddenly' appeared some 40-30,000 years ago and made humans the most advanced species on this planet within a relatively short period of time.
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The Fallacy of Freud: Critique Part II
Posted Jan 14, 2007
Another individual who made a remarkable contribution to humanity was Sigmund Freud. Freud studied psychology and discovered a latent mind, which he named “sub-conscious”. Freud and Carl G. Jung were the most respected and recognized psychologists of all times who spent almost their entire academic careers explaining the human mind.
Freud and Jung were friends and co-workers until they had a falling out. They met in 1907 and worked together until about 1912 when Jung decided to start his own school of psychology in Zurich. Jung's emphasis in the field in psychology had to do with dreams. Jung developed many theories about dreams, a lot of them disagreeing with Freud.
Unfortunately, not much original research has been done into the field of psychoanalysis after Jung and Freud. Their word on the subject has been treated as the final testimony and all studies in psychology and dream-analysis today is mere homage paying to those two great thinkers. There is another reason why dream-analysis became almost a taboo subject over the next few decades since Jung and Freud. There is an interesting story behind this great debacle of dream-analysis.
The friction between Jung and Freud was much deeper than simple arguments about their differing theories on dreams. In some ways they were just too smart for each other. They would often disagree with each other’s theories, however this was not the true source of their problems. When they worked together they took turns analyzing each other's dreams. Jung was getting suspicious about some of the things that Freud was telling him about his unconscious. Jung dug deeper and deeper only to find out that Freud was sleeping with Jung's wife. But while telling each other their dreams in their unconscious, Freud found out something about Jung also. Freud found out that Jung was sleeping with one of his younger female patients. Freud used this information against Jung, saying that if Jung told anyone about Freud and Jung's wife, Freud would also make his secret public. After all this the two went their separate ways.
When it came to the study of dreams, Freud and Jung had different ideas. Freud claimed that dreams were all about sex. No matter what the dream was, he could relate it to a sexual feeling or fantasy. Jung thought that dreams were a tool to help us grow, not just to release extreme sexual desires. Jung felt that dreams were more than about sex, they were about life. Jung said that sexual drive doesn't even motivate us as much as the fear of death. The theories of Jung and Freud continue to influence the dominant thought in the fields of psychology and psychiatry even today.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud: A Critique-Part I
Posted Jan 14, 2007
We all know that Marxism failed. It's political application in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe met with catastrophic failure. Communism failed as it created classes within class, some higher than the others, and led to financial crises, political chaos and breakdown.
There is another important reason why Marxism failed. Marx propounded his theories in late 19th Century, when the entire Europe was teeming with industrial activity. Among the people of Europe, Marx identified a class: that of workers, millions of them. Similarly, he saw a class of peasants in the hinterland. He believed that both these classes could join forces, and overthrow the whole of bourgeois economic system.
Marx failed to realize that the class comprised of individuals. That each individual was a human entity, born and trained to be different than others. Even in a homogenous environment, each human was likely to show some competitive individualistic traits and attempt to break out of the monolithic institutions. Marx failed because he failed to take his lessons in human psychology.
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The Three Mysteries of 21st Century
Posted Jan 14, 2007
The 20th Century was driven by the thoughts and ideas of three visionaries: Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. Each one of them helped us understand more about ourselves, though in entirely different ways. Darwin described how we evolved physically, Freud psychologically and Marx materially. The idea may sound cynical but each one of them contributed to the creation of the biggest holocaust of our times: The Second World-War.
Unfortunately, the War caused another silent casualty: that of abstract ideas, thoughts and philosophy. The War accelerated scientific discoveries to such an extent that post-War, each idea, thought or postulate was put to rigorous scientific tests to prove its veracity. Those, which passed the tests, were quickly incorporated in mainstream science. The unproven ideas or beliefs were quickly relegated to the dustbins. The ideas that remained outside the realm of science were vehemently abhorred and denied recognition.
It's time we brought those abstract ideas and theories back. Because, we are headed towards another emerging trio--three ideas that will shape the 21st Century and the future of mankind:
How human cells regenerate/reproduce themselves?
How human DNA replicates itself?
How human intelligence can demystify/recreate itself?
These ideas will decide which way we are headed and how far we are likely to go till science finally catches up with mankind and takes over.
I have working knowledge about the first two ideas but can provide detailed information regarding the third. But I need to interact and get feedback from like-minded people who are interested in these and similar ideas.
So, please keep in touch and keep me informed that others are as interested in these ideas as I am. Keep posting your critical ideas so that I could also improve upon myself.
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